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Margaret Beaufort ( c. 1437 – 1474) was a daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp . Her maternal grandparents were Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his first wife Elizabeth Beauchamp, 4th Baroness Lisle. Elizabeth was daughter of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley and Margaret de Berkeley ...
Beaufort, Lady Margaret. Beaufort, Lady Margaret (1443–1509). The mother of Henry VII, Margaret Beaufort was one of the most remarkable women of the 15th cent. She was married to Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, as a child and conceived Henry when she was only 12. Tudor died when she was six months pregnant; she outlived two further husbands ...
Aug 21, 2021 · Lady Margaret Beaufort is one of the most fascinating and at times unfairly maligned characters from English history. Thanks to fictional works she is often viewed as a mean, cold and vengeful woman, obsessed with power and easily the worlds greatest mother-in-law from hell. But the true story of this woman is far more thrilling and versatile. We know from accounts that she had a great sense ...
Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge: 1502 to 1649. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Norton, Elizabeth. Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty. Amberley, 2010. Tallis, Nicola. Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch. Michael O'Mara, 2020.
Jan 13, 2022 · Margaret Beaufort. Margaret Beaufort was the mother of Henry VII . She was a descendant of Edward III through John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and his third wife Katherine Swynford. Margaret was betrothed when very young to John de la Pole, but the marriage never took place. Her first husband was Edmund Tudor (half brother of Henry VI ), the ...
Jun 4, 2017 · Also in 1502, Margaret gave a grant to Cambridge to found the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, and John Fisher became the first to occupy the chair. When Henry VII appointed John Fisher as bishop of Rochester, Margaret Beaufort was instrumental in choosing Erasmus as his successor in the Lady Margaret professorship.
Margaret Beaufort (c. 1408–1449), married Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon In 1399, she was invested as a Lady Companion, Order of the Garter (L.G.). [3] After Beaufort died in 1410 (in the Tower of London ), she married his nephew Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (1387–1421), the son of King Henry IV .